8-letter words containing v, i, r
- indeavor — Obsolete form of endeavor.
- indevour — Obsolete spelling of endeavour.
- ingroove — to cut a groove into
- innerved — Simple past tense and past participle of innerve.
- interval — an intervening period of time: an interval of 50 years.
- invaders — Plural form of invader.
- inventor — a person who invents, especially one who devises some new process, appliance, machine, or article; one who makes inventions.
- inverity — the state or quality of being untrue
- inversed — reversed in position, order, direction, or tendency.
- inverses — Plural form of inverse.
- inverted — to turn upside down.
- inverter — a person or thing that inverts.
- invertin — an enzyme, occurring in yeast and in the digestive juices of animals, that causes the inversion of cane sugar into invert sugar.
- invertor — any muscle that turns a limb or part inward.
- investor — to put (money) to use, by purchase or expenditure, in something offering potential profitable returns, as interest, income, or appreciation in value.
- invirile — unmanly
- invitors — to request the presence or participation of in a kindly, courteous, or complimentary way, especially to request to come or go to some place, gathering, entertainment, etc., or to do something: to invite friends to dinner.
- invokers — Plural form of invoker.
- involver — Someone or something that involves.
- jarovize — to vernalize.
- kristeva — Julia, born 1941, French literary theorist, critic, and psychoanalyst, born in Bulgaria.
- l-driver — a learner-driver: a person who is learning to drive, has not yet passed the official driving test, and must be accompanied by a qualified driver and display L-plates on the car
- lavalier — an ornamental pendant, usually jeweled, worn on a chain around the neck.
- lawgiver — a person who promulgates a law or a code of laws.
- levering — Mechanics. a rigid bar that pivots about one point and that is used to move an object at a second point by a force applied at a third. Compare machine (def 4b).
- levirate — the custom of marriage by a man with his brother's widow, such marriage required in Biblical law if the deceased was childless. Deut. 25:5–10.
- lie over — to stay and wait until some future time
- listserv — any similar software program.
- livelier — full or suggestive of life or vital energy; active, vigorous, or brisk: a lively discussion.
- liveried — clad in livery, as servants: a liveried footman.
- liveries — Plural form of livery.
- livering — Anatomy. a large, reddish-brown, glandular organ located in the upper right side of the abdominal cavity, divided by fissures into five lobes and functioning in the secretion of bile and various metabolic processes.
- liverish — resembling liver, especially in color.
- livetrap — a trap for capturing a wild animal alive and without injury.
- liveware — /li:v'weir/ 1. A less common synonym for wetware 2. (Cambridge) Vermin. "Waiter, there's some liveware in my salad."
- livewire — Alternative spelling of live wire.
- louvring — to make a louver in; add louvers to: to louver a door.
- lovebird — any of various small parrots, especially of the genus Agapornis, of Africa, noted for the affection shown one another and often kept as pets.
- lovelier — charmingly or exquisitely beautiful: a lovely flower.
- mahavira — Vardhamana.
- maravedi — a former gold coin issued by the Moors in Spain.
- marivaux — Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de [pyer kar-le duh shahn-blan duh] /pyɛr karˈlɛ də ʃɑ̃ˈblɛ̃ də/ (Show IPA), 1688–1763, French dramatist and novelist.
- martin v — (Oddone Colonna) 1368–1431, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1417–31.
- maverick — Southwestern U.S. an unbranded calf, cow, or steer, especially an unbranded calf that is separated from its mother.
- misdrive — to drive or guide badly
- monrovia — a republic in W Africa: founded by freed American slaves 1822. About 43,000 sq. mi. (111,000 sq. km). Capital: Monrovia.
- moravian — pertaining to Moravia or its inhabitants.
- mordovia — a constituent republic of W central Russia, in the middle Volga basin. Capital: Saransk. Pop: 888 700 (2002). Area: 26 200 sq km (10 110 sq miles)
- navarino — a seaport in the SW Peloponnesus, in SW Greece: Turkish and Egyptian fleets defeated near here in a naval battle 1827.
- navicert — A form of passport permitting a neutral ship to traverse a blockade in wartime.